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And after that period when costs are going up due to gpus replacing workers... All bets are off on terms of what the economy even looks like
that's not me, but hi
As the frontier gets smarter and more useful prices will only go up, as they are set to replace jobs being paid six or seven figures a year - the demand for as much inference on these models for as long as possible will be astronomical, but compute starting in 2030 will not be keeping up.
Eventually prices will fall for assistants but the frontier will be the most profitable thing in the world, and the top companies basically already have oligopolies due to their ridiculously expensive compute investments.
You can basically time your openai releases by if another safety person has quit in protest
the demand then will rise and prices will rise in tandem
it is of course possible that 'deep learning hits a wall' and they don't get there, but i wouldn't bet on it
which yes, will completely destroy the consumer economy and social structures and current forms of governance
like in the good old days
productivity tooling replaces employees
There's some things I really care about the human experience for, but much content it just matters to me if it's a joy to ride.
1. Interacting with the randomness of the world
and
2. Thinking a lot, going in loops and thought loops and seeing what they discover.
I don't expect them to need humans forever.